Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — Freight Conductor’s Bad Accident. [ARTICLE]

Freight Conductor’s Bad Accident.

John McArthur, conductor...cm. the local freight going north Wednesday morning met' with a bad [ accident while the train was doing its regular work at Lowell. A big cask containing nitric acid, turned over in one of the cars, while the train was switching on the siding, and McArthur started into the car to right the cask on end. In jumping through the door he slipped and fell into the acid, which had ran out and covered the whole floor of the car. It splashed all over his hands and .face and he was horribly burned." In a few minutes the whole left side of his face was one big blister. Some of the acid also went into his left eye and it is probable that he will never be able to see out of it again. He suffered terribly from the burns and the medical pssistanca rendered him at Lowell seemed to do but little good. He was taken to his home in Chicago on the afternoon train Wednesday.